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Taglines:

• It's not a remake, it's not a sequel, and it's not based on a Japanese one. Old school American horror.

• Stay out of the swamp.

Cast

• Joel Moore as Ben
• Tamara Feldman as Marybeth
• Deon Richmond as Marcus
• Mercedes McNab as Misty
• Kane Hodder as Victor Crowley / Mr. Crowley
• Parry Shen as Shawn
• Joleigh Fiorevanti as Jenna
• Joel Murray as Shapiro
• Richard Riehle as Mr. Permatteo
• Patrika Darbo as Mrs. Permatteo
• Robert Englund as Sampson
• Joshua Leonard as Ainsley
• Tony Todd as Clive Washington / Reverend Zombie

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Film festivals

Hatchet was selected for the Fifth Annual Tribeca Film Festival 2006. The film premiered to 5 sold out nights and rave reviews. Variety, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times all hailed it as one of the biggest hits of the festival. Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal 2005 The TriBeCa Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Manhattan. ...

Hatchet was selected for the 2006 FrightFest ^[1] Festival in London and shown at The Odeon West End on the 25th August 2006. It was introduced on stage by Adam Green who hosted a Q&A session afterwards.

Hatchet was selected for Sitges International Film Festival in Spain in 2006.

Hatchet was selected for Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX in 2006. The film sold out both nights, resulting in extra folding chairs having to be set up in the theater and audience members sitting in the aisles. The film walked away with the audience award for "Best Picture" as well as jury prizes for "Best Actor" (Kane Hodder) and "Best Special Effects".

Hatchet was selected for Germany's Fantasy Film Festival in 2006. As part of the festival, the film toured Munich, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Bochum, Hamburg, and Berlin.

The film's last festival appearance in 2006 was at the October Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Hollywood. Adam Green introduced the screening and promised that the film had found a U.S. distributor, although at the time he did not reveal the name of the company. He also suggested that the release version of the film was likely to have its violence cut down in order to achieve an R-rating.

Hatchet was selected for 3 more festivals in 2007 right before it's release, including Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival and France's Weekend De La Peur.

Harry Knowles from Ain't It Cool News picked Hatchet as one of the "Top 10 Films of the Year" for 2006. Also on the list was Pan's Labyrinth, 300, Children of Men, and Rocky Balboa.

MTV listed Hatchet as one of the Top 10 horror films coming out in 2007.

Looking to this film to help save "R-rated original horror" in an era of bad remakes and PG-13 films, the fans started the official HATCHET ARMY and have taken it upon themselves to raise awareness about the film. The group can be spotted at horror conventions nationwide. They have helped spread the word by contacting movie theaters directly to make sure that they are playing Hatchet on September 7th.

Rating problems

The film was originally given an NC-17 rating for extreme violence and gore. After two months of appeals and revisions, it has now been R-rated by the MPAA for strong bloody horror violence, sexual content, nudity and language. Director Adam Green found the process to be frustrating and arbitrary: "Ultimately, it came down to frames and a couple shots,” says Green of the re-editing. “There’s a few deaths that don’t go the distance anymore. For instance, Joleigh still gets the belt sander put in her face.* That was okay, but you can’t impale her on a shovel handle. Explain that one to me! And Patrika can still get her face ripped in half, but Richard can only get hit with a hatchet a certain number of times. It was thirteen times that he got chopped before; now it’s three." The unrated director's cut will be available DVD on December 18, 2007. [2] The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ...

References

External links

• Official Site
• Official Victor Crowley MySpace
• Ariescope Pictures
• Official UK trailer
• Hatchet at the Internet Movie Database
• Hatchet at All Movie Guide
• MTV Article about Tribeca Film Festival